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The Impact Of Social Media On Society, Jacob Amedie Santa Clara University

The Impact Of Social Media On Society, Jacob Amedie

Pop Culture Intersections

It is the objective of this article to present evidence from several researches that were done by many scholars in different environment that distinctly demonstrates the negative impact of social media in three main categories. First, social media fosters a false sense of online "connections" and superficial friendships leading to emotional and psychological problems. The Second harm of social media is that it can become easily addictive taking away family and personal time as well as diminish interpersonal skills, leading to antisocial behavior. Lastly, social media has become a tool for criminals, predators and terrorists enabling them to commit illegal …

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Lack Of Resources In Classrooms, Juliana Maffea Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

Lack Of Resources In Classrooms, Juliana Maffea

English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World

In different areas of the world, classrooms lack resources. Teachers are trying their hardest to teach their students with what is given to them, but it is not enough. The result of having a lack of resources is students not graduating, teachers burning out, parents scared for their students, and students not getting the proper education. An insufficient amount of resources in classrooms comes from the lack of funding or the improper use of spending in schools. There are solutions to this wicked problem, such as raising more money, making cuts, or changing the way schools spend their money. This …

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On Dumpster Diving, Lars Eighner University of Massachusetts Boston

On Dumpster Diving, Lars Eighner

New England Journal of Public Policy

Lars Eighner became homeless in 1988 after leaving a job he had held for ten years as an attendant at a state hospital in Austin, Texas. He lives in a small apartment in Austin and continues to scavenge. This article was originally published in the Fall 1990 issue of The Threepenny Review. Reprinted with permission.

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Flying Man And Falling Man: Remembering And Forgetting 9/11, Graley Herren Xavier University - Cincinnati

Flying Man And Falling Man: Remembering And Forgetting 9/11, Graley Herren

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Behind Social Media: A World Of Manipulation And Control, Spencer J. Keenan Santa Clara University

Behind Social Media: A World Of Manipulation And Control, Spencer J. Keenan

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This article will be arguing that big players, mainly governments and large corporations, use user data, targeted advertising, and selective speech to manipulate users of popular social media platforms. They do this in order to achieve their agendas goals at the expense of the users. These goals may range from selling a certain good or service to swaying a certain percentage of voters to cast their ballots one way or another. Regardless of the outcome, people are being taken advantage of, with most not even knowing it. Users must look past the media in front of them to see their …

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Pagtatatag Ng Tradisyon At Kumbensiyon: Ang Soap Opera Sa Radyo, 1922-1963, Louie Jon A. Sanchez Ateneo de Manila University

Pagtatatag Ng Tradisyon At Kumbensiyon: Ang Soap Opera Sa Radyo, 1922-1963, Louie Jon A. Sanchez

English Faculty Publications

Ang soap opera, sa pagpapakilala rito sa bansa ng mga Americano sa midyum ng radyo, ay mahihiwatigang nahinuha at tinanggap batay sa tradisyonal at kombensiyonal nitong pagkakaanyo at kagamitan. Isa itong sunuran at bukás (open-ended) na naratibong nailalako’t nabubúhay sa napagkakakitahang tangkilik.

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Are Electric Cars The Future?, Nick Gable Kutztown University

Are Electric Cars The Future?, Nick Gable

English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World

My paper is about switching to electric cars for transportation. The end of fossil fuels is soon, and we must preserve them. We must cut down on fossil fuel use to save the environment from pollution. I use statistics on emissions and pollution from conventional cars and explain why we need to switch to electric cars sooner rather than later. I argue that there should be stipulations by the government regarding electric cars and conventional cars on the lot. I also say that we should start producing lots of electric cars as soon as possible.

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Online Dating Technology Effects On Interpersonal Relationships, Anabel Homnack Santa Clara University

Online Dating Technology Effects On Interpersonal Relationships, Anabel Homnack

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The trend of online dating has been around since the emergence of the Internet. In the generation before the online era, people would meet face-to-face in cafes, on streets or at bars or even on airplanes. People make initial contact based on a number of cues and preferences, getting to know one another in person. Today these coincidental or so to say "meant to be" moments seem to be non-existent. Why have they become such a rarity? Is it because we know that there is an easy way out? What will it take for people to be as straightforward and …

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The Struggle Of Mental Health Within College Students, Skyler R. West Kutztown University

The Struggle Of Mental Health Within College Students, Skyler R. West

English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World

One in five college students have thoughts of committing suicide daily. We often wonder what may lead to thoughts like this. This essay uses a subjective approach to broaden the knowledge of readers regarding mental health problems within college students. In this essay, readers discover the statistical findings of factors like alcohol, nicotine, schoolwork and athletics factoring into a student's psychological destressed mental state. Without having available and anonymous resources accessible to them, students are not able to get the help they need.

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The Fast Fashion Fad, Megan Wu Santa Clara University

The Fast Fashion Fad, Megan Wu

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New companies with mission statements to use solely recycled materials have started to pop-up all over the world. Even well established brands such as Nike or Adidas have started to create lines of products made with recycled materials. However, despite these efforts, I sadly believe that fast fashion will continue to dominate the fashion industry in the years to come due to two factors. Most consumers remain uneducated about the negative impacts that fast fashion has on the environment and mindlessly partake in society’s consumerist culture. Therefore, they fall subject to marketing schemes fast fashion companies employ. While some may …

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A Peak Ahead: Risks, Decisions, And Adventure, Christine Woodside 2023 Dartmouth College

A Peak Ahead: Risks, Decisions, And Adventure, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

Looking ahead to Summer/Fall 2023, the journal planned to publish stories on an 800-mile bicycling and kayaking loop in New England, an essay on the connection between whitewater rescue techniques and keeping young people safe, and a literary essay on walking in Scotland.

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Books And Media, 2023 Dartmouth College

Books And Media

Appalachia

A literary essay on the term “white death” when it means avalanche, by former University of Alaska Anchorage creative writing program director David Stevenson. Reviews of: The Naturalist's Companion: A Field Guide to Observing and Understanding Wildlife, by Dave Hall; This Wild Land: Two Decades of Adventure in the Shadow of Katahdin, by Andrew Vietze; Tangled Roots: The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics, by Sarah Mittlefehldt; Imaginary Peaks, by Katie Ives; Don't Sing to Me of Electric Fences, by Dave Seter; Dammed If You Don't, by Chris Kalman.

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Valley And Skyline Sketches, 2023 Dartmouth College

Valley And Skyline Sketches

Appalachia

Memories of a Franconia, New Hampshire childhood, by Gayle Greene. A college student tries to reconnect with his father in Lone Pine, California, by Dylan Campbell. The sight of a badger trailside brings up memories of Stacy Allana Clark’s recently departed uncle. Skiing in Mount Washington’s Tuckerman Ravine brings up years of memories for Douglass Teschner.

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News And Notes, 2023 Dartmouth College

News And Notes

Appalachia

A $1.1 million federal grant funds extensive trail work on the Franconia Ridge in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, to be led by the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Trails Department and the White Mountain National Forest. Excerpts of the latest Mount Washington Master Plan, written by representatives of government and businesses in the area, outlines the Cog Railway’s plans for a hotel high on the mountain. University of New Hampshire researchers discuss huge increase in hiking after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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In Memoriam, 2023 Dartmouth College

In Memoriam

Appalachia

Poet, essayist, Appalachia contributor and former Connecticut deputy environmental commissioner David K. Leff, by Christine Woodside.

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Alpina, 2023 Dartmouth College

Alpina

Appalachia

Among the many updates on mountaineering in the greater ranges: More information on a Denali climber who in May 2021 called for a rescue he did not need. Clint Helander and Andres Marin climb Shaft of the Abyss on Golgotha in Alaska. Among many “firsts” on Everest in 2022, Lucy Westlake, 18, becomes the youngest American woman to summit. Polish mountaineer Marek Raganowicz climbs a new route on the North Face of Polar Sun Arm on Baffin Island. Three climbers achieve a new route on Cerro Torre in Patagonia. Reviews of eight mountaineering films, including Infinite Storm (Bleecker Street …

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Accidents, 2023 Dartmouth College

Accidents

Appalachia

Reports of rescues and accidents in New Hampshire’s White Mountains during the cold weather and pre-meltout months of late 2021 and winter/spring 2022. The editors describe the role the mind plays in planning and executing hikes. Two incidents of poor planning complicated by medical conditions in the Franconia Ridge area are examined. A hiker slips on the Fishin’ Jimmy Trail. In April, a skier suffers a long fall and multiple injuries in the Great Gulf Wilderness. Cardiac trouble plagues a guest at Carter Notch Hut in March. A hiker falls long and hard while trying to take a photo on …

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Letters, 2023 Dartmouth College

Letters

Appalachia

Musings on the good and bad of cell phones in response to Stephen Kurczy’s “Do Cell Phones Belong in the Mountains?” Summer/Fall 2022). An ALS sufferer’s moving response to Rachel Curtis’s piece on losing her hiking partner to ALS (“Preparing: A Wrong Turn, a Dangerous River, and an Absent Partner”). Thoughts on problems of trail apps.

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Quickwater: New England's Whitewater Canoeing Heritage, Rick Spedden 2023 Dartmouth College

Quickwater: New England's Whitewater Canoeing Heritage, Rick Spedden

Appalachia

A canoeist whose parents met on an Appalachian Mountain Club whitewater trip tells the story of mid-twentieth-century AMC water exploration.

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Slowing Down: A Young Naturalist Lagging Behind A Group Pulls A Stranger Into Her World, Elissa Ely 2023 Dartmouth College

Slowing Down: A Young Naturalist Lagging Behind A Group Pulls A Stranger Into Her World, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

Hurrying down Mount Monadnock ahead of a storm, the writer encounters a student with much to teach her.

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Day Four: A Rescuer's Account Of A Hiker's Baffling Survival, James Mason 2023 Dartmouth College

Day Four: A Rescuer's Account Of A Hiker's Baffling Survival, James Mason

Appalachia

In early of May 2009, teams from New Hampshire search-and-rescue organizations try to locate a man missing for four days below the Franconia Ridge. The outcome is astonishing.

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White Mountain Mysteries: A Bushwhacker And His Brother Decode Remote Place Names, William Geller 2023 Dartmouth College

White Mountain Mysteries: A Bushwhacker And His Brother Decode Remote Place Names, William Geller

Appalachia

Stories of mysterious places off trail in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, each trip lasting three days in the fall.

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Waterman Fund Essay Winner: What Climate Models Don't Show: A Scientist's Work On A Future Forest Model Can Feel Personal, Olivia Box 2023 Dartmouth College

Waterman Fund Essay Winner: What Climate Models Don't Show: A Scientist's Work On A Future Forest Model Can Feel Personal, Olivia Box

Appalachia

The author, the winner of our annual essay contest for emerging writers, keeps adjusting her computer model of the impact of the Asian longhorned beetle on future New England forests.

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Laughter At High Altitude: Encounter With A Pair Of Elands, Daniel Hudon 2023 Dartmouth College

Laughter At High Altitude: Encounter With A Pair Of Elands, Daniel Hudon

Appalachia

In South Africa’s central Drakensberg mountains, these docile antelopes seem mildly curious about a human.

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Photographing Wildlife: How To Capture An Image Without Forsaking A Wild Animal, Lisa Ballard 2023 Dartmouth College

Photographing Wildlife: How To Capture An Image Without Forsaking A Wild Animal, Lisa Ballard

Appalachia

Lisa Ballard, an award-winning outdoor photographer, says that one must be physically fit and study an animal’s habitat, food, and life cycle in order to take photos.

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The Harpy Eaglet: Real Encounters With A Feathered Phantasma, Christina Devin Vojta 2023 Dartmouth College

The Harpy Eaglet: Real Encounters With A Feathered Phantasma, Christina Devin Vojta

Appalachia

The author answered an ad, “Field assistant needed for research on monkeys and harpy eagles in Peru” and got the job observing harpy eagle chicks, the size of bald eagles.

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The Thrush Sings Me Home: What Is Killing The Birds Of My Heart?, Amy Boyd 2023 Dartmouth College

The Thrush Sings Me Home: What Is Killing The Birds Of My Heart?, Amy Boyd

Appalachia

Amy Boyd writes of her heartbreak seeing dead wood thrushes in her town. Habitat destruction and climate change will reduce these beautiful birds’ numbers by 80 percent over the next 60 years.

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Mama Bear And Me: Sharing Inner Knowledge In A Few Glances, Katie Baptist 2023 Dartmouth College

Mama Bear And Me: Sharing Inner Knowledge In A Few Glances, Katie Baptist

Appalachia

A woman camping alone in northern California's Yolla Bolly Wilderness meets a mother bear at an uncomfortably close range.

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Interviews With Bears: Trailside, Near New York City, Margaret Redmond Whitehead 2023 Dartmouth College

Interviews With Bears: Trailside, Near New York City, Margaret Redmond Whitehead

Appalachia

The author encounters bears both in wild parts of the Appalachian Trail and in the settled Trailside Museums & Zoo near Bear Mountain, New York. She reveals the blurred lines between human and bear territory.

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The Long Way Home: Danger Defines The Meaning Of Safety, Christine Woodside 2023 Dartmouth College

The Long Way Home: Danger Defines The Meaning Of Safety, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

The editor-in-chief explores risk at the rushing edges of Bumpus Brook in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

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Juliana Maffea Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

Graley Herren Xavier University

Louie Jon Sanchez Ateneo de Manila University

Louie Jon Sánchez Ateneo de Manila University

Nick Gable Kutztown University

Skyler West Kutztown University

Briana Craig James Madison University

Alexandria Palmieri Kutztown University

Stephanie Amis The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Rachel Roseman Albright College

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